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“My family member is in prison”:  Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated

“My family member is in prison”: Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated

Shivangi Gupta, a psychotherapist and researcher enrolled in a doctoral programme at Virginia Tech University, will be presenting a talk titled ““My family member is in prison”: Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated”

Her talk aims to shed light on the psychosocial health and experiences of children and families who have a parent/family member in prison. It endeavours to facilitate participants’ knowledge of the educational, social as well as emotional functioning of children of the incarcerated, by drawing on the findings of a two-year long ICMR funded qualitative research study (2017-2019), undertaken at the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia. Through this talk, Shivangi will focus on the experiences of these families, as well as their incarcerated family members, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the institutional and non-institutional support mechanisms available to these families as well as the challenges inherent in accessing these systems. Shivangi will weave insights from secondary research as well as her own experience of undertaking social interventions with the families of the incarcerated to provide a firsthand, comprehensive understanding.

You are invited to attend the seminar in person or join the live seminar via Zoom using the link provided at the top of the page and write to events@iphindia.org to stay in touch.

Speaker

Shivangi Gupta

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Affiliation

Project Aesha & Virgina Tech University

Date

     9-July-2020

Time

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

 

“My family member is in prison”:  Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated

IPH Seminar: Public Health Architecture and Realist Methodology

On May 15th, 2020, Dr. Justin Jagosh, Director, Centre for Advancement in Realist Evaluation and Synthesis (CARES), UK, will be presenting a webinar titled “Public Health Architecture and Realist Methodology.”

Realist Methodology, with its emphasis on uncovering explanatory mechanisms and context-mechanism interactions, can help in envisioning the ‘architectural diversity’ within classes of interventions. In the domain of public health for example, interventions can comprise educational, incentivizing or punitive efforts. Interventions can be highly scripted or, conversely, be designed for customization. Interventions can change contexts or can be changed by them. Nation-wide strategies may create new opportunities in some jurisdictions and new deficits in other areas, leading to the ad hoc formation of more interventions. Thus, understanding the architecture of interventions can serve as a pre-cursor to comprehensive assessments, to anticipate blind spots and provide new ideas for innovation and complex problem solving. This webinar will review these ideas in relation to public health planning in line with principles of realist inquiry. You are invited to join us using Google Meet, linked to the top of this page.

Speaker

     Dr. Justin Jagosh

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Affiliation

Director, Centre for Advancement in Realist Evaluation and Synthesis (CARES), UK

Date

          15-May-2020

Time

    11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

 

IPH seminar: Exploring self-reliance for primary healthcare among families and communities using traditional medicine in Karnataka and Kerala

IPH seminar: Exploring self-reliance for primary healthcare among families and communities using traditional medicine in Karnataka and Kerala

Shivanand S, PhD Scholar at TDU and IPH, will be presenting a seminar titled “Exploring self-reliance for primary healthcare among families and communities using traditional medicine in Karnataka and Kerala.” This is the study topic of Shivanand’s PhD. This study will be carried out in H D Kote (Karnataka) and Aluva (Kerala). He will be exploring factors which influence self-reliance while using traditional medicine at household and community level for primary healthcare. The study will use case study method and it is intended to develop self-reliance framework. The framework will be rooted in community health projects for its applicability.

You are invited to attend the seminar in person or join the live seminar via Zoom using the link below

https://zoom.us/j/701662546.

Speaker

       Shivanand S

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Affiliation

PhD Scholar, TDU and IPH

Date

      12 March-2020

Time

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

“My family member is in prison”:  Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated

IPH Seminar: Understanding health exposures and vulnerabilities of women workers.

Dr. Sukanya Mohanty, Consultant with the SPEAK team at IPH, Bengaluru, will be presenting a seminar titled “Understanding health exposures and vulnerabilities of women workers.” This seminar is based on her doctoral thesis at CSMCH, JNU under Prof. Ritupriya Mehrotra. The seminar speaks of health from a lens of social determinants of health (SDH) and is based on the experiences of work change of women construction and domestic workers due to health and other reasons. The method used is case study and the perspective applied here is gender based SDH (Sen & Ostlin 2007). In its critique, the presentation brings in certain revelations about health as a reason of women’s work changes and SDH.  

You are invited to attend the seminar in person or join the live seminar via Zoom using the link provided at the top of the page.

Speaker

Dr Sukanya Mohanty

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Affiliation

Consultant, IPH

Date

20-February-2020

Time

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

“My family member is in prison”:  Insights from research and interventions with families of the incarcerated

IPH seminar: When community care becomes community mental health

Sudarshan Kottai, doctoral candidate at IIT Hyderabad, will be presenting a seminar titled ” When community care becomes community mental health: The disappearance of local voices in community mental health programmes in Kerala.”  

In response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low- and middle-income countries, many NGOs have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with locally grown, bottom-up, community-led organizations. This talk by Sudarshan is based on a clinical ethnography of community mental health programmes. Drawing on observations, interviews, and narratives between various stakeholders of these programmes, this talk will illustrate how the community-led volunteer-based pain and palliative programmes are gradually being eclipsed by the mental health NGOs. Sudarshan argues that scaling up of services through aggressive task-shifting via local volunteers is a socio-politico-moral process that can pose serious consequences for the lives of the most vulnerable citizens.  

You are invited to attend the seminar in person or over Zoom using the link below: https://zoom.us/j/701662546

Speaker

Sudarshan Kottai

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Affiliation

IIT Hyderabad

Date

31-January-2020

Time

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

IPH seminar: Exploring self-reliance for primary healthcare among families and communities using traditional medicine in Karnataka and Kerala

IPH Seminar: Understanding Surrogacy

Lopamudra Goswami, doctoral candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, will be presenting her work on surrogacy in India in a seminar titled “Understanding Surrogacy.” 

Over the last 6 years, Lopamudra’s research work has focused on Indian surrogate mothers in Gujarat and currently her focus is in the state of Karnataka. India used to be the surrogacy capital of the world. Yet, in general, people often find themselves trying to come up with a rather unique explanation of what it could potentially mean in the event they encounter the word. Often, people are also left surprised to learn the related statistics. For this lecture, Lopamudra will explain some of the nuances of surrogacy as a process. 

You are invited to attend the seminar in person or join the live seminar via Zoom using the link below: https://zoom.us/j/701662546

Speaker

Lopamudra Goswami

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Affiliation

 Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

Date

30-January-2020

Time

4:00 pm – 5.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070